Patel Recipient of Nation's Highest Science Honor APS PastPresident C. Kumar N. Patel is one of eight scientists to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest science honor. |
APS Names Michels as 1996-1997 Congressional Fellow The APS selected Joseph Michels, currently employed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, as its next Congressional Fellow. |
Weinberg is New PRD Editor Erick Weinberg, a professor of physics at Columbia University, succeeded Lowell Brown as editor of Physical Review D in June. |
B-E Condensates, Quantum Computing Highlight 1996 DAMOP Meeting The latest results in Bose-Einstein condensation experiments,quantum resonance imaging and computing, and collision studies of laser-cooled atoms were among the highlights of the annual meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics in May. |
EarthLink Internet Access Provider APS members can now gain reliable nation-wide access to the Internet through the Society's new agreement with EarthLink, an Internet service provider. |
APS Awards 1996-1997 Scholarships to Minority Undergrads The APS has awarded corporate-sponsored scholarships to 24 minority students who are majoring, or plan to major, in physics for the 1996-1997 academic year, |
Students Find Summer Internships Through ISIP The APS Industrial Summer Internship Program has placed 12 students in positions at some of the nation's top industrial and national laboratories. |
In Brief The APS has established the Hans Bethe Prize and Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science; the APS Executive Board has approved a proposed expansion of its Ridge, New York facilities; and the APS received a $10,000 bequest from the estate of Dr. Frank Evens Myers and Mrs. Ionemary Myers which will be used to fund the Society's Minority Scholarships initiative. |